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Rocky Mountain Scene, Wind River Mountains
Alfred Jacob Miller1853
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
At the close of the fur-traders' rendezvous, Miller's patron, the Scottish Sir William Drummond Stewart, took a small group of friends fishing and hunting in the Wind River Mountains. Miller recalled the region as a sportsman's paradise, with crystal clear lakes in which trout were so plentiful that they could be caught with pins rather than with fishhooks.
This painting was commissioned by William C. Wilson in 1853.
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- Title: Rocky Mountain Scene, Wind River Mountains
- Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874)
- Date Created: 1853
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874)
- Provenance: Commissioned by William C. Wilson, 1853; inherited by Lennox Birkhead and family; William Cushing Whitridge, Baltimore, ca. 1970; Fenn Galleries/J.N. Barfield Art Galleries, New York, by consignment (?); Private collection; Sotheby's, New York, Sale, no. 5787, lot 91, December 1, 1988, by consignment; purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Legum (Colwill-McGhee as agent), Baltimore, 1988; given to Walters Art Museum, 1993.
- Object Type: paintings
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Exhibitions: Long-term Loan to Mayor's Office. Office of Promotion and the Arts, Baltimore. 2000-2007.
- Dimensions: H: 18 1/2 x W: 24 in. (47 x 60.9 cm); Framed H: 25 3/4 x W: 32 x D: 3 3/4 in. (65.4 x 81.3 x 9.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Legum, 1993
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.2662
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